There is a ton of people talking about "www.john.com"... Do a Google search.
According to Alexa, John.com is registered to John Little of Cupertino, California. One of the Internet’s early pioneers, Little founded Portal Software, Inc., a company that grew to become one of America’s first Internet service providers. With John.com, however, Little’s — if the site does, indeed, belong to him — intentions are less than clear.
Displaying a matrix of twelve stock photographs — hats, footwear, tools, vehicles and animals — John.com directs users to enter an “Access Code” whenever an image is clicked. Examination of the site’s source code reveals that the site is set up to alert the owner whenever a successful login occurs.
With no successful login attempts to date, hypotheses range from the site being a recruitment program similar to Cicada 3301 to an obscure alternate reality game to an inexperienced web developer experimenting with AJAX implementation, though, the latter seems unlikely, considering the site is valued at a whopping $850,000.
Yeah that's just for the domain name. Since no one knows what the site does there's no implied value there. A simple word like john as a website name is extremely valuable.
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FoxMcCloud11 ago
There is a ton of people talking about "www.john.com"... Do a Google search.
According to Alexa, John.com is registered to John Little of Cupertino, California. One of the Internet’s early pioneers, Little founded Portal Software, Inc., a company that grew to become one of America’s first Internet service providers. With John.com, however, Little’s — if the site does, indeed, belong to him — intentions are less than clear.
Displaying a matrix of twelve stock photographs — hats, footwear, tools, vehicles and animals — John.com directs users to enter an “Access Code” whenever an image is clicked. Examination of the site’s source code reveals that the site is set up to alert the owner whenever a successful login occurs.
With no successful login attempts to date, hypotheses range from the site being a recruitment program similar to Cicada 3301 to an obscure alternate reality game to an inexperienced web developer experimenting with AJAX implementation, though, the latter seems unlikely, considering the site is valued at a whopping $850,000.
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privatepizza ago
Thanks for this! 850,000? No-one taken a look behind yet at all? Guess that value could be for the domain itself.
Theupsidedown ago
Yeah that's just for the domain name. Since no one knows what the site does there's no implied value there. A simple word like john as a website name is extremely valuable.